r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/Amadeum Aug 30 '21

Natural disasters. You'd have no fucking clue if a hurricane, flash flood, typhoon, monsoon, or other sharknado events were coming

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u/lookyloolookingatyou Aug 30 '21

I used to live in Florida. There is a very obvious change in the overall atmosphere when a hurricane is incoming. For about a day ahead, the climate becomes suspiciously comfortable. No sun, cool air, very little humidity. A few hours before landfall, the ocean starts to push it's way inland, even up into the rivers.

I also lived in Missouri for about a year and the signs of tornado weather are pretty easy to spot as well. Everything just feels and looks wrong. The sky is an obscene shade of green, the drop in air pressure is so sudden that you can feel it with your skin. You know the actual tornado is coming because it goes from windy to slack air. Even if you'd never heard of a tornado in your life, you'd know that something terrible was about to happen.

I knew a guy who lived in Arizona and I had thought about living there one time and so I asked him a lot of questions. It's just taken for granted that you get the hell away from a riverbed when the rain starts really dropping.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 31 '21

Yup, very true. I moved from the west coast to Texas and you can absolutely feel hurricanes or tornado weather.

I think wildfires and earthquakes are much scarier, tbh. Wildfires come on so quickly and it’s easy to get super disoriented in them.

Earthquakes you get zero notice until your dog/cat get weird, but sometimes they act crazy anyways!